Ref ID: 51659616619
Name
Thomas McMeekin
Description
Newspaper Photograph of Rifleman Thomas McMeekin
Life Story
Name: Thomas McMeekin.
Service Number: 10971.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 6th Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: 8th April 1897, 59 Brownlow St, Shankill, Belfast.
Died: 11th August 1915.
Address: 58 Brownlow Street, Belfast
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Volunteer Thomas McMeekin, son of Thomas, a soldier, and Rose McMeekin, lived at 58 Brownlow Street, Shankill, Belfast
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Thomas was a member of the North Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force
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He signed the Ulster Covenant on the 28th of September 1912, Ulster Day, within the Albert Hall, Shankill Road.
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Thomas joined the Royal Irish Rilfes.
He was posted as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the 10th July 1915.
Thomas was a Rifleman in 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he was Killed In Action on the 11th August 1915, aged 18 years.
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A local newspaper states
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Mrs McComb, 58 Brownlow Street, Belfast, has been notified by the War Office that her son, Thomas McMeekin, 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, was killed at the Dardanelles. Deceased, who was eighteen years of age, enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war, and was a member of the North Belfast Regiment U.V.F
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Thomas Soldiers Effects were left to his mother.
A Pension Application Form shows his mother as claimant.
His Dependant Pension Application Form shows his mother as claimant also.
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Thomas received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star.
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He is Remembered at Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, Newspaper, Photograph - Belfast Telegraph, Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, Larne Times.
